Cbgar-perforator



(No Model.)

F. G. OSBORN.

Cigar Perforator.

No. 243,153. Patented June 21, i88fl.

UNITED STATES PATENT Fries.

FREDERICK G. ()SBORN, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

ClGAR-PERFQRATQR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,153, dated J'une 21, 1881. Application filed April 23, 1881. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: ing the cup of such proportions that the cigar Be it known that I, F. G. OsBoRN, a citizen will not penetrate to the bottom all injury to 3 5 of the United States, residing in the city of the tip of the cigar from either cup or piercer.

Newark, county of Essex, and State of New is eflectually prevented. With the point bent 5 Jersey, have invented certain new and useful to perforate the side of the cigar, as plainly Improvements in Cigar-Perforators, fully de shown in Fig. l, a number of holes can be scribed and represented in the following specimade by applying the piercer to different sides 40 fication and theaccompanying-drawings, formof the cigar-tip, which would not be the case ing a part of the same. were the piercer arranged in the center of the My invention relates to an improvement in cup.

lhatclassof cigar-peribratorscombiningacup- By making the perforator of one piece of shaped shield and a piercing-tool; and it conmetal great cheapness is secured, and the ar- 5 sists in a cigar-perforator formed of one piece ticle can be owned by every smoker and carof metal of cup shape, with a bent tongue out ried in the pocket conveniently. from the side and projected into its interior. I am aware that cigar-picrcers have been In the drawings annexed, Figure 1 isa side patented with a guard and tool combined, as view of my perforator applied to a cigar, the in Patents Nos. 133,864, of 1872, and 218,692, 50 cupor shield being shown in section; and Fig. of 1879; but inthese inventions the elements 2 is a perspective view of the perforator alone. of simplicity and cheapness presented in mine A is the cup or shield, whose use is to proare wanting.

tect the point of the piercer, that it may be I therefore claim my invention as follows:

carried in the pocket, and which may be made The cigar-perforator formed of one piece of 5 5 of thimble or acorn or other suitable shape. metal of cup shape, with bent tongue out from The piercer a consists of a pointed tongue the side and projectingin its interior,substan- 3 of metal cut from the side of the cup, with its tially as shown and described.

point toward the mouth of the latter and its In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my body twisted to give it firmness, as well as to hand in the presence of two subscribing wit- 6o bli-ing the eilige of the metallic'tongue againsg nesses. t e cigar w ien in use. By bending the tip 0 the tongue partly toward the center of the cup E OSBORN the perforation is made at one side of thecigar Witnesses: rather than at the point, where it is most likely THos. S. CRANE,

to split open the cigar-wrapper; and by mak- CHAS. G. HERRIGK. 

